08pa-5129 - Enriching farmers competency towards productivity enhancement and enterprise development
PASAKA is a provincial federation of small coconut farmers, farm-workers, small owner cultivators and rural poor in the province of Lanao del Norte. Lanao del Norte is a province of the Philippines located in the Northern Mindanao region. PASAKA was organized as a response to the growing harassment of tenant farmers by landowners. PASAKA has representation in seven municipalities of the province Lanao del Norte in the Region Northern Mindanao. PASAKA has registered about 1,700 members, mostly small coconut farmers and landless farmers. PASAKA is an organization that pursues the implementation of Genuine Agrarian Reform and rural development through organizing, capability building and introduction of livelihood programmes and other social services among the coconut farmers, agricultural workers and rural poor with special concern to women and youth. In the third phase of the project, the organization is starting with the entrepreneurial activities. Aside from regular activities as standards for cooperative membership, special focus is on coaching of entrepreneurial management. Business plans will be prepared and feasibility studies executed on production of coco and copra. Land management and asset reform are vital, because without land and sustainable farm technology, there won’t be the desired livelihood development.